rhythmbox-metadata process constantly fills ALL of the memory, then drops to 1% until killed

[Filip Lamparski]

When first started, rhythmbox's rhythmbox-metadata process tends to grab all available memory (up to 1.1 GB) for a few seconds, then releases everything for a while. Then it slowly creeps up to 1.1 GB again. This repeats indefinitely until I manually kill the offending process, at which point it respawns, although no longer taking up more than 10 MB.

System:
Ubuntu 12.10 with all updates installed; 64-bit

$ apt-cache policy rhythmbox
rhythmbox:
  Installed: 2.97-1ubuntu5
  Candidate: 2.97-1ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 2.97-1ubuntu5 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[RaduStoica (radumstoica)]

I've submitted this upstream.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[dan_g (dan-bin)]

I experienced this today on a pretty fresh install of 12.10 64-bit. It became problematic when I ran VirtualBox (with lots of memory requirements).

I Manually killed all Rhythmbox processes.
I was listening to the "Radio" stations.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Bug report did not expire due to bug watch
Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) reached end-of-life on May 16, 2014
No reply to comment #4 asking if issue still current
Upstream bug has moved to
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/rhythmbox/issues/1239
but has seen no activity
Can't reproduce with rhythmbox 3.4.3-2 so closing